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Fan1978 said:
They are going to be bad until they fire autry, he is dreadful. They have plenty of talent. No offensive scheme and zero team effort. Everyone out for themselves
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Just about every team in the current ACC has coaching questions. The only coach who looks like a shoo-in for HoF is Tony Bennett. Larranga might have a shot, zip titles, but a solid coaching tree. Hamilton is good, not great. Davis is already in his 50s in first year and won't have enough time even if he proves out to be consistently good. The rest of the group... as Dennis Eckersley once famously said about the Pittsburgh Pirates, "It's a hodgepodge of nothingness."
 
Palatine said:
#3 UNC goes down the unranked Georgia Tech, 74-73.
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I feel like at this point we want UNC and Kansas to lose. We are fighting for a protected seed, and the media is going to love Purdue and Houston no matter what. Our narrow loss to KU will never be a Q1 “quality” loss, and our win over UNC will never be a high quality Q1 win. Let them slide comfortably to a 2 or 3 seed so we can comfortably be a 1 or 2
 
willie99 said:
Do they even talk UConn anymore? I'm guessing they're just drowning in their sorrows at this point

Although I suppose they're where we were with Hurley in year one.
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Their "Boneyard Unintentional Hilarity" thread hasn't been posted to since October. Even then, the last year of posting had been just lamenting how good (or lucky) UConn has been compared to them.
 
uconn_jack said:
Their "Boneyard Unintentional Hilarity" thread hasn't been posted to since October. Even then, the last year of posting had been just lamenting how good (or lucky) UConn has been compared to them.
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There was some wailing and gnashing of teeth after the UNC MSG game. To be fair, there's a subset of posters there that are generous to us with praise there when they see good basketball.
 
storrsroars said:
Just about every team in the current ACC has coaching questions. The only coach who looks like a shoo-in for HoF is Tony Bennett. Larranga might have a shot, zip titles, but a solid coaching tree. Hamilton is good, not great. Davis is already in his 50s in first year and won't have enough time even if he proves out to be consistently good. The rest of the group... as Dennis Eckersley once famously said about the Pittsburgh Pirates, "It's a hodgepodge of nothingness."
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I agree. And Hamilton at 75 and Larranga at 74 are not going to be around much longer. That leaves Bennett, Brownell (Clemson) and Keatts (NC State) as the only coaches that have more than 5 years at their current job. Scheyer and Davis are the names everyone knows because of what they inherited. I do think Scheyer and Davis are going to be successful primarily due to their attractiveness to recruits, but also because the ACC as a whole lacks depth. A bunch of teams that once battled for high seeds in the NCAA tourney now strive to just be respectable.

You toss out the BE names and Hurley, Smart, McDermott, Pitino, Miller, Cooley and Matta would be improvements for most ACC teams. English, Holloway and Neptune are basically where most ACC coaches are right now.....trying to establish themselves. And then there is DePaul
 
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ctchamps said:
I hope we have veto power on accepting future conference mates. When the ACC breaks up (it can’t happen quick enough for me) they can join the AAC. Easy logo change. Same with BCU.

We can set up a home and MSG game with them every four years for those fans that still pretend we have a rivalry with them.

The degree of interest this thread is generating relative to the Goodman thread demonstrates their current state of relevancy to UConn fans.
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We don’t have much of a rivalry with them anymore obviously but they were always my most hated team. I’d rather play them every year then Mississippi valley state. Even if they suck it’d still be fun to beat them up.
 
Rocktheworld said:
I feel like at this point we want UNC and Kansas to lose. We are fighting for a protected seed, and the media is going to love Purdue and Houston no matter what. Our narrow loss to KU will never be a Q1 “quality” loss, and our win over UNC will never be a high quality Q1 win. Let them slide comfortably to a 2 or 3 seed so we can comfortably be a 1 or 2
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I meant to say each will never not be quality Q1 loss/win respectively
 
Checking out the ACC standings only GT and Clemson have worse conference records than any of the former BE teams in that conference.

UNC losing to GT is the equivalent of UConn losing to Georgetown. I could hug everyone of the Georgia Tech players. For the moment they have helped me avoid the need to root for Duke to beat UNC.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Dodged a bullet with him. He's not just disappointing, he’s downright awful. Meanwhile we landed the most efficient offensive player in college basketball.
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We as in UConn mens bb and their fans. You still have to have some of that bullet lodged in your craw.
 
Rocktheworld said:
I feel like at this point we want UNC and Kansas to lose. We are fighting for a protected seed, and the media is going to love Purdue and Houston no matter what. Our narrow loss to KU will never be a Q1 “quality” loss, and our win over UNC will never be a high quality Q1 win. Let them slide comfortably to a 2 or 3 seed so we can comfortably be a 1 or 2
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I could be wrong but at the moment, I believe we would need a serious collapse to not land in Brooklyn, regardles of what region we would be placed in. As long as we remain in position to receive a one seed (regardless of whether it's the first or fourth) we'll allso end up on a path to Boston.

I see Purdue landing in Indianapolis with a path for Detroit (I don't believe the B1G is strong enough to knock them uot of a one seed) while Houston is in a tricky situation (due to Kansas and the general depth of quality in the B12), where remaining a one seed should give them memohis with a path to Dallas.

It wouldn't surprise me if Kansas ends up as the west #1 seed, starting in Omaha.

Beyond this, the only things I'm confident in are that both UNC and Duke will be sent to Charlotte for the first two rounds (if they survive to the second round).
 
karstenkibbe said:
That entire board is so delusional. And it’s simply delicious watching them fall further and further into the toilet bowl of irrelevance… while you and and harmonize to the sweet tune of….

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It's kind of serendipitous that there's a Q with an orange background on that clip.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
For your viewing pleasure. They're beyond the anger and frustration phase and settling nicely in to indifference.

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Post game thread had 80 ish comments…..here we have that in 10 minutes
 
ctchamps said:
We as in UConn mens bb and their fans. You still have to have some of that bullet lodged in your craw.
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What are you going on about? Yes, we means UConn. The player referenced, if you couldn't guess, is Cam Spencer.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I could be wrong but at the moment, I believe we would need a serious collapse to not land in Brooklyn, regardles of what region we would be placed in. As long as we remain in position to receive a one seed (regardless of whether it's the first or fourth) we'll allso end up on a path to Boston.

I see Purdue landing in Indianapolis with a path for Detroit (I don't believe the B1G is strong enough to knock them uot of a one seed) while Houston is in a tricky situation (due to Kansas and the general depth of quality in the B12), where remaining a one seed should give them memohis with a path to Dallas.

It wouldn't surprise me if Kansas ends up as the west #1 seed, starting in Omaha.

Beyond this, the only things I'm confident in are that both UNC and Duke will be sent to Charlotte for the first two rounds (if they survive to the second round).
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I have a hard time seeing KU landing a 1 seed. They aren't playing at that level.
 
HuskyHawk said:
What are you going on about? Yes, we means UConn. The player referenced, if you couldn't guess, is Cam Spencer.
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Having fun with you. Yes UConn dodged the Timberlake bullet. I'm aware you're a loyal UConn fan and being a UConn fan are very happy UConn dodged that bullet. But Kansas is your second team and you do root for them to win when it's not at the expense of UConn. So you didn't completely dodge the Timberlake bullet. His bad play at Kansas helps UConn and that makes you happy. But when you watch Kansas he has to make you cringe.
 
I used to hate all the Big East programs when they were rivals and SU was up there at the top. I've become more indifferent to the fruit now that we don't play them and they have fallen into obscurity.

Meanwhile, they seem to hate UConn more than ever. It's sad, yet glorious.
 
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UConnRock said:
UNC hit by a classic trap game. Looking ahead to Duke on Saturday..
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ESPN promo-Ing the hell out of that game like they always do. “Battle for supremacy of Top 10 teams that lost to Georgia Tech! Saturday night on ESPN!”
 
ctchamps said:
Having fun with you. Yes UConn dodged the Timberlake bullet. I'm aware you're a loyal UConn fan and being a UConn fan are very happy UConn dodged that bullet. But Kansas is your second team and you do root for them to win when it's not at the expense of UConn. So you didn't completely dodge the Timberlake bullet. His bad play at Kansas helps UConn and that makes you happy. But when you watch Kansas he has to make you cringe.
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I wish Timberlake had been good, honestly. I'm thrilled UConn got the vastly better player in Cam, but I certainly wish Timberlake was at least Joey C level.
 
navery12 said:
That he only plays 11 minutes a game is the point. They have no depth so he has to get some minutes, but 11 isn't much. Our 7th and 8th guys (Johnson and Diarra) are both getting almost 19 minutes a game as reference
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I guess you're right that the point is that they have no depth. I'm just surprised that their bench is that bad that he has to play at all. Isn't someone else at guard on their bench better? At UConn he'd be glued to the bench.
 
I'll be honest - I did not realize Syracuse was the 5th (Wiki says 6th) winningest program in history.

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HooperScooper said:
I guess you're right that the point is that they have no depth. I'm just surprised that their bench is that bad that he has to play at all. Isn't someone else at guard on their bench better? At UConn he'd be glued to the bench.
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Somehow it doesn't seem like they do. Jamari McDowell was a top 100 recruit so maybe he slowly replaces Timberlake. Haven't watched enough Kansas to know if he's ready. I think the Arterio Morris transfer killed them. He came in which likely caused Chris Johnson and Marcus Adams Jr to transfer out. And then he got kicked off the team anyway
 
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HooperScooper said:
I guess you're right that the point is that they have no depth. I'm just surprised that their bench is that bad that he has to play at all. Isn't someone else at guard on their bench better? At UConn he'd be glued to the bench.
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Behind Roumoglou
 
I get why everyone likes to dump on SU, but it was the best rivalry UConn has had aside from URI in YanCon days. The SU games were the most fun and I miss it. As it happens I will be very close to SU next weekend and will pass on regards from the BY.
 
Inyatkin said:
Quick look at their board has some people still talking about what they can do to make the NCAAs. I don't know, are KenPom 80 teams typically on the bubble?
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Lundardi has just 3 ACC teams making it (UNC Duke Clemson), and none in the top 8 just missing the cut. Long way for even UVa to come back.
Palm has VaTech among last 4 in.
 
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